# List of symphonic poems

This is a list of some notable composers who wrote symphonic poems.

## Hugo Alfvén

* En skärgardssägen, Op. 20 (1903)

## Frederic Austin

* Isabella or the Pot of Basil (1909, after the poem by John Keats)

## Edgar Bainton

* Pompilia (1903)
* Paracelsus, Op. 8 (1904, after the poem by Robert Browning)
* Thalassa (1933, reworked into his Symphony No. 2 in D minor between 1939-40)

## Mily Balakirev

* Russia Second Overture on Russian Themes (1863–64, revised 1884)
* In Bohemia Overture on Czech Themes (1867, revised 1905)
* Tamara (1867–82)

## Béla Bartók

* Kossuth (1903)

## Arnold Bax

* Cathaleen-ni-Hoolihan (1905)
* Into the Twilight (1908)
* In the Faëry Hills (1909)
* Rosc-catha (1910)
* Christmas Eve (1912, r. 1921)
* Nympholept (1912, orch. 1915, r. 1935)
* The Garden of Fand (1913, orch. 1916)
* Spring Fire (1913)
* In Memoriam (1916)
* November Woods (1917)
* Tintagel (1917, orch. 1919)
* Summer Music (1917, orch. 1921, r. 1932)
* The Happy Forest (1922)
* The Tale the Pine Trees Knew (1931)
* Northern Ballad No. 1 (1927)
* Northern Ballad No. 2 (1934)
* Prelude for a Solemn Occasion (Northern Ballad No. 3) (1927, orch. 1933)
* A Legend (1944)

## Paul Ben-Haim

* Pan for soprano and orchestra, Op. 13 (1931)
* Yizkor (Evocation) for violin and orchestra (1942)

## Natanael Berg

* Traumgewalten (1910)
* Varde ljus! (1914)

## Hector Berlioz

* Chasse royale et orage from the Opera Les Troyens (1856–58)

## Franz Berwald

* Slaget vid Leipzig (The Battle of Leipzig, 1828)
* Elfenspiel (Play of the Elves , 1841)
* Ernste und heitere Grillen (Serious and Merry Whims , 1842)
* Erinnerung an die norwegischen Alpen (Reminiscence of the Norwegian Mountains, 1842)
* Bayaderen-Fest (Festival of the Bayadères, 1842)
* Wettlauf (Racing, 1842)

## Adolphe Biarent

* Trenmor (1905, after a legend from Ossian)

## Arthur H. Bird

* Eine Karneval-Szene, Op. 5 (A Carnival Scene, 1886)

## Ernest Bloch

* Vivre-aimer (1900)
* Hiver-printemps (1904-05)
* Voice in the Wilderness (1936)

## Mel Bonis

* Salomé, Op. 100 (1909, unpublished)
* Ophélie, Op. 165 (published in 2018)
* Le Rêve de Cléopâtre, Op. 180 (The dream of Cleopatra, published in 2018)

## Hjalmar Borgstrøm

* Hamlet, Op. 13 (1903)
* Jesus i Gethsemane, Op. 14 (Jesus in Gethsemane, 1904)
* John Gabriel Borkman, Op. 15 (1905)
* Die Nacht der Toten, Op. 16 (The Night of the Dead, 1905)
* Tanken, Op. 26 (The Idea, 1917)

## Alexander Borodin

* In the Steppes of Central Asia (actually 'Musical Picture'; 1880)

## Sergei Bortkiewicz

* Othello, Op. 19 (1914)

## Rutland Boughton

* A Summer Night (1899, rev 1903)
* Imperial Elegy: Into the Everlasting (1901)
* Troilus and Cressida (Thou and I) (1902)
* Love in Spring (1906)
* Midnight for Chorus & Orchestra (1907)

## Lili Boulanger

* D'un matin de printemps (A spring morning, 1918)
* D'un soir triste (A sad evening, 1918)

## York Bowen

* The Lament of Tasso, Op.5 (1902)
* Symphonic Fantasia, Op.16 (1905)

## Henry Brant

* Curriculum ll: Spatial Tone Poem

## Havergal Brian

* Hero and Leander Op. 8 (1904–06, lost)
* Humorous Legend on Three Blind Mice (1908–09, withdrawn)
* In Memoriam (1910)
* Doctor Merryheart Comedy Overture No. 1 (1911-2)
* The Battle Song (sketched between 1930 and 1931, completed by John Pickard in 1997)
* Elegy (1954)

## Frank Bridge

* Mid of the Night (1903)
* Isabella (1907, after John Keats)
* Summer (1914-15)
* Enter Spring (1926-27)

## Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff

* Manfred (c.1901)

## Alfred Bruneau

* La belle au bois dormant (The sleeping beauty, 1894)

## Ferrucio Busoni

* Symphonisches Tongedicht, Op. 31a (1893)

## Alfredo Casella

* Pagine di Guerra for four-hand piano (1915, revised and orchestrated in 1918)
* A Notte Alta, Op. 30 for solo piano (1917, arranged for piano and orchestra in 1921)

## George Whitefield Chadwick

* Symphonic Sketches (1895-1904)
* Cleopatra (1904)
* Aphrodite Symphonic Fantasy (1910–11)
* Tam o' Shanter, Symphonic Ballad (1914–15)
* Angel of Death (1917–18)

## Ernest Chausson

* Viviane (1882, rev 1887)

## Frederic Cliffe

* Cloud and Sunshine (1890)

## James Cohn

* A Song of the Waters, Op. 53 (1976)

## Claude Debussy

* Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune ( Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, 1891–94)
* La Mer (The Sea, 1903–05, rev 1908)

## Frederick Delius

* Hiawatha (1887-8, completed by Robert Threlfall)
* Three Small Tone-poems, VI/7 (1890)
* Summer Evening
* Winter Night (or, Sleigh Ride)
* Spring Morning
* Paa Vidderne (On the Mountains), VI/10 (1890–92)
* Over the Hills and Far Away, VI/11 (1895–97); fantasy overture for orchestra
* Paris: The Song of a Great City, VI/14 (1899-1900); nocturne for orchestra
* Two Pieces for Small Orchestra, VI/19 (1911–12)
* On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
* Summer Night on the River
* Eventyr (Once Upon a Time), VI/23 (1917)
* A Song of Summer, VI/26 (1929–30)

## Felix Draeseke

* Julius Caesar (1860, rev 1865)
* Frithjof (1865)
* Der Thunersee (1903)

## Paul Dukas

* L'apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer's Apprentice), symphonic scherzo after Goethe (1896–97)
* Le fil de parque (c.1908, proyected or destroyed)

## Henri Duparc

* Aux étoiles (only extant movement from the Poème nocturne, 1874)
* Lénore (1875)

## Antonín Dvořák

* Rhapsody in A minor, Op. 14 (1874)
* Vodník (The Water Goblin), Op. 107 (1896)
* Polednice (The Noon Witch), Op. 108 (1896)
* Zlatý kolovrat (The Golden Spinning Wheel), Op. 109 (1896)
* Holoubek (The Wild Dove), Op. 110 (1896; r. 1897)
* Píseň bohatýrská (A Hero's Song), Op. 111 (1897)

## George Dyson

* Siena (1907, lost)

## Edward Elgar

* Cockaigne (In London Town) (1900–01)
* In the South (Alassio) (1903–04)
* Falstaff Symphonic Study in C minor, Op. 68 (1913)

## George Enescu

* Isis (unfinished, 1923; completed by Pascal Bentoiu)
* Vox maris, Op. 31 (1929–54)

## Óscar Esplá

* El sueño de Eros (The dream of Eros, 1912)
* Don Quijote velando las armas (Don Quixote guarding the weapons, 1924)

## Harry Farjeon

* Mowgli (1907)
* Summer Vision (1913, lost)
* Pannychis (1942)

## Lorenzo Ferrero

* La Nueva España, a set of six symphonic poems (1992–99)

## Zdeněk Fibich

* Othello, Op. 6 (1873)
* Spring, Op 13 (1881)
* Záboj, Slavoj a Luděk, Op. 37 (1873)
* The Tempest, Op. 46 (1880)
* Toman and the Wood Nymph, Op. 49 (1874–75)

## Josef Bohuslav Foerster

* Mé Mládí, Op. 44 (My Youth, 1900)
* Jaro a touha, Op. 93 (Springtime and Desire, 1912)

## César Franck

* Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne, symphonic poem after Victor Hugo, (1846)
* Rédemption, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, M. 52 (1872, r. 1874)
* Les Éolides, M. 43 (1875–76)
* Le Chasseur maudit (The Accursed Huntsman), M. 44 (1881–82)
* Les Djinns, for piano and orchestra, M. 45 (1884)
* Psyché, for orchestra and chorus, M. 47 (1886–88)

## Arthur Friedheim

* Transitions (unknown date)

## Edward German

* Hamlet (1897)
* The Willow Song (a.k.a. "Othello", 1922)

## George Gershwin

* An American in Paris (1928, actually 'Tone Poem')
* Cuban Overture (1932, conceived as a symphonic poem)

## Ruth Gipps

* Knight in Armour, Op. 8 (1942)
* Death on a Pale Horse, Op. 25 (1943)

## Alexander Glazunov

* Stenka Razin, Op. 13 (1885)

## Reinhold Glière

* The Sirens, Op. 33 (1908)
* The Zaporozhy Cossacks, Op. 64 (1921)
* The Bequest, Op. 73 (1941)

## Karl Goldmark

* Zrínyi, Op. 47 (1903)

## Geoffrey Gordon

* Shock Diamonds (1968)

## Eugene Aynsley Goossens

* Perseus, Op. 3 (1912)
* The Eternal Rhythm, Op. 5 (1913)

## Percy Grainger

* Train Music (1901–57)

## Čestmír Gregor

* Čekání (Waiting, 1942)
* Děti Daidalovy (Daedalus' Children, 1961)

## Ferde Grofé

* Knute Rockne (1931)
* Rip Van Winkle (1932-1954, reworked into "Hudson River Suite")
* Trylon and Perisphere (1939, later renamed as "Black Gold")
* Atlantic Crossing (1965)

## Ernest Guiraud

* Chasse fantastique (1887)

## Henry Kimball Hadley

* Salome, Op. 55 (1905)
* Lucifer, Op. 66 (1914)
* Othello, Op. 96 (1919)
* The Ocean, Op. 99 (1921)

## Howard Hanson

* Before the Dawn (1920)
* Exaltation, Op. 20 (1920)
* North and West (1923)
* Lux aeterna, Op. 24 (1923–26)
* Pan and the Priest, Op. 26 (1926)

## Karl Amadeus Hartmann

* Miserae (1933–34, previously titled Symphony No. 1)

## Hamilton Harty

* With the Wild Geese (1910)
* The Children of Lir (1938)

## Alfred Hill

* The Lost Hunter (1945)

## Joseph Holbrooke

* The Raven, Op. 25 (1899-1900, rev 1903)
* Ode to Victory. Op. 29 (1901, destroyed)
* The Viking, Op. 32 (1901, rev 1912)
* Ulalume, Op. 35 (1903)
* The Birds of Rhiannon, Op. 87 (c.1922)

## Lee Holdridge

* Scenes of Summer (1973)

## Augusta Holmès

* Hymne à Apollon (Hymn to Apollo, 1872)
* Les Argonautes (The Argonauts, 1880)
* Irlande (Ireland, 1882)
* Andromède (Andromeda, 1883)
* Pologne (Poland, 1883)
* La Nuit et l'Amour ("Night and love" interlude from the ode "Ludus pro Patria", 1888)

## Gustav Holst

* Indra, Op 13 (1903)
* Egdon Heath, Op. 47 (1927)

## Arthur Honegger

* Pastorale d'été (1920)
* Pacific 231 Symphonic Movement No. 1 (1924)
* Rugby Symphonic Movement No. 2 (1928)
* Radio-panoramique (1935)

## Alan Hovhaness

* Copernicus, Op. 338 (1960)
* Komachi 7 miniature tone poems for piano, Op. 240 (1971)

## Airat Ichmouratov

* David of Sassoun, symphonic poem after Armenian epos, Op. 11 (2006)
* The Letter from an Unknown Woman, for Strings, Op. 56 (2017)

## Vincent d'Indy

* La Divine Comédie (The Divine Comedy after Dante, 1871)
* Poème des montagnes for piano, Op. 15 (Poem of the Mountains, 1881)
* Istar, Op. 42 (1896)

## John Ireland

* The Forgotten Rite (1913)
* Mai-Dun (1921)

## Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov

* On the Volga, Op. 50 (1910)

## Jānis Ivanovs

* Varavīksne (Rainbow, 1939)
* Lāčplēsis (Lacplesis, 1957)
* Poema Luttuoso for string orchestra (1966)
* Novella Brevis (1982)

## Charles Ives

* Central Park in the Dark (1906, rev 1936)
* The Unanswered Question (1908, rev 1930–35)
* The General Slocum (Sketched 1909–10, three completions made, most notably the one by D.G. Porter)

## Zhu Jian'er

* Ode to the Motherland, Op. 13 (1959)
* Wonders of Naxi, Op. 25 (1984)
* Mountain Soul, Op. 39 (1995)
* A Hundred Years of Vicissitudes, Op. 41 (1996)

## Dmitry Kabalevsky

* Spring, Op. 65 (1960)
* The Eternal Flame in Bryansk, Op. 85 (1968?)

## Manolis Kalomiris

* Minas, the Rebel Corsair of the Aegean (1940)
* The Death of the Valiant Woman (1943, rev 1944–45)

## Artur Kapp

* Saatus (Fate, 1925)

## Sigfrid Karg-Elert

* Prinz Karneval (1908)

## Mieczysław Karłowicz

* Returning Waves, Op. 9 (1904)
* Eternal Songs, Op. 10 (1906)
* Lithuanian Rhapsody, Op. 11 (1906)
* Stanisław i Anna Oświecimowie, Op. 12 (1906)
* A Sorrowful Tale, Op. 13 (1907–08)
* An Episode during Masquerade, Op. 14 (1908–09)

## Hugo Kaun

* Vineta, Op. 16 (1886)
* Im Urwald, Op.43 (1901, based on Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha)
* Sir John Falstaff, Op. 60 (1904)

## Paul von Klenau

* Paolo und Francesca (1913)
* Jahrmarkt bei London (1922)

## Lev Knipper

* On the Mountain Pass (1940)
* Tales about the New Land (1958-60)
* Letters to a Girl Friend (1961)

## Victor Kolar

* Hiawatha (circa 1908)
* A Fairy Tale (circa 1913)

## Erich Wolfgang Korngold

* Tomorrow for mezzo-soprano, women's choir and orchestra, Op. 31 (1944, from the movie The Constant Nymph)

## László Lajtha

* In Memoriam, Op. 35 (1941)

## Artur Lemba

* Symphonic Poem (1957, dedicated to the 40 anniversary of the October Revolution)

## Franz Liszt

* Liszt's symphonic poems:
** Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne (1848-9) (after Victor Hugo)
** Tasso: lamento e trionfo (1849) (after Byron)
** Les Préludes, after Lamartine (1848, rev. before 1854)
** Orpheus (1853-4)
** Prometheus (1850)
** Mazeppa (1851)
** Festklänge (1853)
** Héroïde funèbre (1849–50)
** Hungaria (1854)
** Hamlet (1858)
** Hunnenschlacht (1857)
** Die Ideale (1857) (after Schiller)
** Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (1881-2)

## William Lloyd Webber

* Aurora (1948)

## Sergei Lyapunov

* Zelazowa Wola, Op. 37 (1909)
* Hashish, Op. 53 (1914)

## Borys Lyatoshynsky

* Возз’єднання, Op. 49 (Reunification, 1949–50)
* Grazyna, Op 58 (1955)
* На берегах Вислы, Op. 59 (On the Banks of the Vistula, 1958)
* Lyric poem "To the Memory of Gliere", Op. 66 (1964)

## Edward MacDowell

* Hamlet and Ophelia, Op. 22 (1884)
* Lancelot and Elaine, Op.25 (1886)
* Lamia, Op. 29 (1888)
* Die Sarazenen & Die schöne Aldâ, Op.30 (1886-90)

## Leevi Madetoja

* Kullervo, Op. 15 (1913)
* Sammon ryöstö (The Abduction of The Sampo), for baritone and male choir, Op. 24 (1915); text from the Kalevala
* Aslak Smaukka, for baritone and male choir, Op. 37 (1917)
* Väinämöisen kylvö (Väinämöinen Sows the Wilderness), for soprano (or tenor), Op. 46 (1919–20); text from the Kalevala

## Frederik Magle

* Cantabile suite (2004–09)

## Miguel Marqués

* La Cova del Drach (The Cave of Drach, 1904)
* En la Alhambra (In Alhambra, circa 1905)
* La Vida (Life, 1906)
* Oceánica (Oceanic, unknown date)

## Bohuslav Martinů

* Angel of Death H 17 (1910)
* Vanishing Midnight Cycle of symphonic poems H 131 (1922)

## John Blackwood McEwen

* Comala (1889)

## Erkki Melartin

* Siikajoki, Op. 28 (1903-04)
* Traumgesicht, Op. 70 (1910)
* Patria, Op. 72 (1911)

## Aarre Merikanto

* Lemminkäinen (1916)
* Pan (1924)
* Notturno (1928)
* The Abduction of Kyllikki (1936)

## Olivier Messiaen

* Jesus (1928, lost)

## Richard Mohaupt

* Town Piper Music (Stadtpfeifermusik, 1941)

## Douglas Moore

* Moby Dick (1928)
* In Memoriam (1943)

## Vano Muradeli

* The Path of Victory (1950)

## Modest Mussorgsky

* Night on the Bare Mountain (1867, reworked into multiple versions)
* Pictures at an Exhibition (1874, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel in 1922)

## Nikolai Myaskovsky

* Silence, after the fable by Edgar Allan Poe, Op. 9 (1909–10)
* Alastor, After the poem by Shelley, Op. 14 (1912)

## Carl Nielsen

* Saga-Drøm (Saga Dream), Op. 39 (1908)
* Pan og Syrinx (Pan and Syrinx), Op. 49 (1918)
* En Fantasirejse til Færøerne (An Imaginary Trip to the Faroe Islands, 1927)

## Ludolf Nielsen

* Regnar Lodbrog, Op. 2 (1900-01)
* Sommernatsstemning! (1903, lost, only an arrangement for 4-hand-piano remains)
* In Memoriam (1904)
* Babelstaarnet, Op.35 (Tower of Babel, 1912-14)
* Hjortholm (1923)

## Zygmunt Noskowski

* Step, Op. 66 (The Steppe, 1895)

## Vítězslav Novák

* V Tatrách, Op. 26 (In the Tatra mountains, 1902)
* O večné touze, Op. 33 (Eternal Longing, 1903–05), after Hans Christian Andersen
* Toman a lesní panna, Op. 40 (Toman and the Wood Nymph, 1906–07)
* Pan for solo piano, Op. 43 (1910)
* De Profundis, Op. 67 (1941)

## Feliks Nowowiejski

* Three Symphonic Poems, Op. 17
** 1. Beatrice (1903)
** 2. Nina and Pergolesi (1905)
** 3. The Death of Helena (1915)

## Ole Olsen

* Asgaardsreien, Op. 10 (1878, rev before 1910)
* Alfedans, Op. 14 (ca.1880)

## Otakar Ostrčil

* Pohádka o Šemíku, Op. 3 (Tale of Šemík, 1899)
* Léto, Op. 23 (Summer, 1927)

## John Knowles Paine

* The Tempest, Op. 31 (ca.1876, after Shakespeare)
* Poseidon and Amphitrite, Op. 44 (ca.1888)
* Lincoln (ca.1904-06, incomplete)

## Hubert Parry

* From Death to Life (1914, retitled as "Symphonic Poem in 2 connected movements")

## Florence Price

* Ethiopia's Shadow in America (1929-32)
* Songs of the Oak (1943)

## Henri Rabaud

* Procession nocturne, Op. 6 (after Nicolas Lenau, 1899)

## Sergei Rachmaninoff

* Manfred (1890-01, lost)
* Prince Rostislav (1891)
* The Rock, Op. 7 (1893)
* Isle of the Dead, Op. 29 (1908)

## Joachim Raff

* Volker for violin and piano, Op. 203 (1876)

## Osmo Tapio Räihälä

* Ardbeg (2003)
* Barlinnie Nine (2005)
* Rautasade (Iron Rain) (2008)

## Ture Rangström

* Dithyramb (1909, revised by Kurt Atterberg in 1948)
* Ett Midsommarstycke (A Midsummer Piece, 1910)
* En Höstsång (An Autumn Song, 1911)
* Havet Sjunger (Song of the Sea, 1913)

## Max Reger

* Vier Tondichtungen nach A. Böcklin (Four Tone Poems after Arnold Böcklin) for orchestra, Op. 128 (1913)

## Cemal Reşit Rey

* Bebek Efsanesi, symphonic poem for orchestra
* Karagöz
* Denizciler Marşı Başlayış
* Çağrılış
* Fatih
* Türkiye (1971)
* Ellinci Yıla Giriş

## Ottorino Respighi

* Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome), P 106 (1916); part I of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
* Ballata delle gnomidi (Ballad of the Gnomes), P 124 (1919)
* Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome), P 141 (1924); part II of Respighi's Roman Trilogy
* Feste Romane (Roman Festivals), P 157 (1928); part III of Respighi's Roman Trilogy

## Silvestre Revueltas

* Cuauhnáhuac (1931, rev 1931–32)
* Esquinas (1931, rev 1933)
* Janitzio (1933, rev 1936)
* Sensemayá (1937, rev 1938)

## Josef Gabriel Rheinberger

* Wallenstein, Op. 10 (1866-68, also his Symphony No. 1)

## Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

* Sadko Musical picture, Op.5 (1867, rev 1869 and 1892)
* Antar Op. 9 (1868, rev 1875 and 1891)
* Scheherazade Symphonic Suite, Op. 35 (1888)
* Flight of the Bumblebee Orchestral interlude from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1899-1900)
* Night on Mount Triglav from the opera Mlada (1899-1901)

## Albert Roussel

* La Menace, Op. 9 (1908)
* Evocations, Op. 15 (1910-11)
* Elpénor, Op. 59 (1937)

## Anton Rubinstein

* Faust, Op. 68 (1864)
* Ivan the Terrible, Op. 79 (1869)
* Don Quixote, Op. 87 (1870)

## Joseph Ryelandt

* La Noche Oscura, Op. 25 (The Dark Night, 1899)
* Idylle mystique, Op. 30 (1900-01)
* Gethsemani, Op 42 (1908)

## Camille Saint-Saëns

* Spartacus (1863)
* Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 (1869)
* Phaéton, Op. 39 (1873)
* Danse macabre, Op. 40 (1874)
* La Jeunesse d'Hercule, Op. 50 (1877)
* La Muse et le Poète, Op. 132 (1910)

## Vadim Salmanov

* Forest (1948)

## Giacinto Scelsi

* Rotative for three pianos, winds and percussion (1929)

## Philipp Scharwenka

* Herbstfeier, Op. 44

## Ernest Schelling

* Légende Symphonique (1907)
* Morocco (1927)

## Arnold Schoenberg

* Frühlings Tod (Fragment, 1898)
* Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 (1899)
* Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5 (1902–03)

## Georg Schumann

* Im Ringen um ein Ideal, Op. 66 (1916)

## Cyril Scott

* Disaster at Sea (1933, rev 1935 as "Neptune")

## Alexander Scriabin

* The Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54 (1905–08); often listed as Symphony No. 4
* Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op. 60 (1910); often listed as Symphony No. 5

## Johanna Senfter

* Tonstück, Op. 102
* Folge von heiteren stücke, Op. 130

## Dmitri Shostakovich

* From Karl Marx to Our Own Days for solo voices, chorus and orchestra (1932)
* The Execution of Stepan Razin, Op. 119 (1964)
* October, Op. 131 (1967)

## Jean Sibelius

One of the most prolific (and significant) contributors to the genre; compositions marked with an asterisk were inspired by Finnish mythology:
* Kullervo, Op. 7 (1891–1892, withdrawn 1893) * [considered variously as a choral symphony and as a cycle of five tone poems]
* En saga, Op. 9 (1892, revised 1902)
* Spring Song, Op. 16 (1894, revised 1895)
* The Wood Nymph (The Wood Nymph), Op. 15 (1894–1895)
* Lemminkäinen Suite (also known as Four Legends from the Kalevala), Op. 22 * [a cycle of four tone poems]
* Lemminkäinen and the Maidens of the Island (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) *
* The Swan of Tuonela (1893-1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
* Lemminkäinen in Tuonela (1895, revised 1897 and 1939) *
* Lemminkäinen's Return (1895, revised 1897 and 1900) *
* Finlandia, Op. 26 (1899, revised 1900); arranged from Press Celebrations Music, JS 137
* Pohjola's Daughter, Op. 49 (1906) *
* Nightride and Sunrise , Op. 55 (1909)
* The Dryad, Op. 45/1 (1910)
* Luonnotar, for soprano and orchestra, Op. 70 (1913); text from the Kalevala *
* The Bard, Op. 64 (1913, revised 1913)
* The Oceanides, Op. 73 (1913–1914, revised 1914)
* Tapiola, Op. 112 (1926) *

## Bedřich Smetana

* Richard III, Op. 11/JB 1:70 (1857–58)
* Valdštýnův tábor (Wallenstein's Camp), Op. 14/JB 1:72 (1858–59)
* Hakon Jarl, Op. 16/JB 1:79 (1860–61)
* Má vlast (My Homeland), JB 1:112 (1874–79); a cycle of six symphonic poems
* Vyšehrad (The High Castle)
* Vltava (The Moldau)
* Šárka
* Z českých luhů a hájů (From Bohemia's Woods and Fields)
* Tábor
* Blaník

## David Stanley Smith

* Darkness and Dawn, Op. 5 (1901)
* The Djinns (1911)
* The Golden Age, Op.40 (Cycle of five symphonic poems, 1916)
* Vision of Isaiah, Op. 58 (1927)
* Credo, Op. 85 (1941)
* Triumph and peace for solo organ, Op. 88 (1942)
* The Apostle, Op. 92 (1944)

## Charlotte Sohy

* Danse mystique, Op. 19 (Mystic dance, 1922)

## William Grant Still

* Darker America (1924)
* Africa (1924–30)
* Dismal Swamp (1933–36)
* Kaintuck (1935)
* Poem for Orchestra (1944)

## Richard Strauss

One of the most prolific (and important) contributors to the genre. He preferred the term "tone poem," rather than "symphonic poem."
* Aus Italien (From Italy), Op. 16 (1886)
* Don Juan, Op. 20 (1888)
* Macbeth, Op. 23 (1886–88)
* Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Op. 24 (1889)
* Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks), Op. 28 (1894–95)
* Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zarathustra), Op. 30 (1896)
* Don Quixote, Op. 35 (1897)
* Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40 (1898)
* Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53 (1903)
* Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Op. 64 (1915)

## Igor Stravinsky

* Le chant du rossignol (Song of the Nightingale, 1917)

## George Templeton Strong

* Dance of the Dead, Op.11 (1878)
* Darkness, Op.13 (1879)
* Spring (ca.1879, lost)
* Undine, Op. 14 (1882-83)
* On the Ocean (1892, lost)
* The Night (four symphonic poems, 1913)
* To the Fields (1913, rev 1937)
* Le Roi Arthur (King Arthur, 1890-91, rev 1915-6)
* Une Vie d'Artiste (An Artist's life, 1919)
* The Voyage (The Journey, 1929)

## Josef Suk

* Praga, Op. 26 (1904)
* Pohádka Léta, Op. 29 (A Summer's Tale, 1908–09)
* Ripening, Op. 34 (1912–17)
* Cycle of Symphonic Poems from Czech History (1915–17)

## Heikki Suolahti

* Hades, Op. 10 (1932)

## Evgeny Svetlanov

* Daybreak in the Field (Symphonic Picture, 1949)
* Daugava (1952)
* Azov Mountain, Op.10
* The Red Guelder-Rose

## Sergei Taneyev

* Oresteia (labeled as an "overture", but really a symphonic poem based on themes from his opera of the same name)

## Karl Tausig

* Manfred, after Byron (c1862-63, lost)
* Der Triumph der Liebe (c1862-63, only 1 page survives)

## Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

* The Storm, Op. (posth.) 76 (1864)
* Fatum, Op. 77 (1868)
* Romeo and Juliet, overture-fantasy after Shakespeare, TH 42 (1869–70, r. 1880)
* Francesca da Rimini, symphonic fantasia after Dante, Op. 32 (1876)
* The Tempest, symphonic fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18 (1873)
* Marche slave, Op. 31 (1876)
* Hamlet, overture-fantasy, Op. 67a (1889)
* The Voyevoda, Op. (posth.) 78 (1891)

## Geirr Tveitt

* Nykken (1957)

## Galina Ustvolskaya

* The Dream of Stepan Razin (1949)
* The Hero's Exploit (1957, later renamed as "Poem No. 2")
* Lights in the Steppe (1958, later renamed as "Poem No. 1")
* Poem on Peace (1962)

## Edgard Varèse

* Apothéoses de l'océan (circa 1905, lost)
* Bourgogne (circa 1908, lost)
* Gargantua (lost)

## Louis Vierne

* Les djinns, Op. 35 for soprano and orchestra (1912)
* Psyché, Op. 33 for soprano and orchestra (1914)
* Éros, Op. 37 for soprano and orchestra (1916)

## Johan Wagenaar

* Saul en David, Op. 24 (1906)
* Elverhoï, Op. 48 (1940)

## Richard Wagner

* Siegfried Idyll (1869–70)

## Anton Webern

* Im Sommerwind (actually 'Idyll after B. Wille', 1904)

## Mieczysław Weinberg

* Symphonic Poem, Op. 6 (1941)
* Morning-Red, Op. 60 (1957)
* The Banners of Peace, Op. 143 (1986)

## Felix Weingartner

* König Lear, Op. 20 (King Lear, 1895)
* Das Gefilde der Seligen, Op. 21 (Fields of the Blessed, 1892)
* La Burla, Op. 78 (a.k.a The Tempest)
* Frühling, Op. 80

## Eric Whitacre

* Godzilla Eats Las Vegas (for winds, 1996)

## Charles-Marie Widor

* La Nuit de Walpurgis, Op. 60 (1887)

## Ralph Vaughan Williams

* In the Fen Country (1904, rev 1905 and 1907)

## Sergei Vasilenko

* Three Bloody Battles (1899-1900, after Tolstoy)
* The Garden of Death, Op. 12 (1907-08, based on Wilde's The Canterville Ghost
* Sappho, Op.14 (1909)
* Hyrcus Nocturnus, Op 15 (1908–09, Flight of the Witches)
* Au soleil, Op 17 (In the Rays of the Sun, 1910-11)

## José Vianna da Motta

* Inês de Castro ("Overture", 1886)
* Invocação dos Lusíadas, Op. 19 (1897)

## Adolf Wiklund

* Summer Night and Sunrise, Op. 19 (1918)

## Hugo Wolf

* Penthesilea (1883–85)

## Haydn Wood

* Mannin Veen: Dear Isle of Man (1933)

## Alexander von Zemlinsky

* Die Seejungfrau (The Little Mermaid), fantasy after Hans Christian Andersen (1902–03)

## Kōsaku Yamada

* The Dark Gate (1913, inspired by a poem by Rofu Miki)
* Flower of Mandala (1913, inspired by a poem by Kazo Saito)